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SvennoJ on 05 April 2025
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UN: 100 children killed, wounded in Gaza every day since war resumed

The United Nations says at least 100 children have been killed or injured every day in Gaza since Israeli strikes resumed on March 18. “Nothing justifies the killing of children,” Philippe Lazzarini, chief of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), posted on X.

Israel is turning the besieged territory into a “no land” for children and “young lives” are being “cut short in a war not of children’s making”, he said.

“This is a stain on our common humanity,” Lazzarini added.


Palestinian children suffer huge toll from Israel’s unrelenting war on Gaza

Children have been among the most severely affected by the continuing Israeli war on Gaza. Many of them have been killed, injured and orphaned and we can see that thousands of children have lost their limbs and they are suffering from severe trauma.

As the UNRWA spokesperson stated: 51 percent of Gaza’s population are children and they make up the largest proportion of those that were killed since the war began back on October 7, 2023.

For many children here in Gaza, displacement has taken a very heavy, huge toll on them.

They have been repeatedly displaced, forced to flee their homes and right now they are forced to live in overcrowded shelters and tents and on the rubble of their destroyed homes and residential buildings.

And we can see that Gaza’s healthcare system is struggling to continue providing essential care for thousands of wounded children, who are not able to receive enough medical treatment locally and they desperately, urgently need to be evacuated outside the territory.


Palestinian groups call on UN rights chief Volker Turk to take action

The Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC), made up of nine groups, has written to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk to demand action on Israel.

Israeli forces continue to kill Palestinians on a genocidal scale in Gaza and have created “conditions of life unfit for human survival,” the council told Turk.

Israel’s “intent to eliminate and eventually destroy Palestinians across unlawfully occupied Palestine” is also evident in occupied West Bank, the council said.

The council called on Turk to clearly label Israel’s conduct as genocide, pressure the Israeli government to end its genocide, ensure accountability for Israeli perpetrators, and mobilise the UN to implement a plan to end genocide against Palestinians across the occupied territory.

PHROC members include:

Al-Haq, Addameer, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, Al-Dameer, Badil, Defense for Children International-Palestine, Jerusalem Center for Legal Aid and Human Rights, Hurryyat, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, Ramallah Center for Human Rights Studies, and the Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling.